History

Details

Formerly known as: Nos.24, 25 AND 26 HIGH PETERGATE.
Row of three houses; now hotel, bookshop and dental surgery.
1700-1707 with later C18 and early C19 doorcases and cornice;
other later C19 and C20 alterations and extensions.
MATERIALS: front of orange brick in Flemish bond, ground floor
of No.29 painted, on painted stone plinth; painted stone
dressings and timber doorcases and cornice; rear of
orange-brown brick; pantile roofs have box dormers with
2-light Yorkshire sashes and brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, cellars and attics; 11-bay front. Cellar
openings behind grilles in plinth.
Central entrance bay to No.25 breaks slightly forward:
doorcase of fluted half-elliptical columns with necking and
moulded bases has moulded cornice on elongated scrolled
consoles: steps lead up to 6-panel door and fanlight in
round-arched architrave with panelled reveal and moulded
transom. No.27 has similar doorcase with door of 8 raised and
fielded panels, renewed radial overlight and corresponding
panelled reveal. No.29 has doorcase enriched with composition
mouldings, of sunk-panel pilasters with acanthus leaf at the
head and open pediment on frieze blocks: door of 6 raised and
fielded panels beneath radial fanlight recessed in plain
reveal in round-arched surround with fluted impost band.
All ground floor windows are 12-pane sashes except for one
16-pane sash to left of entrance to No.27: No.25 has 1-pane
sash windows on first and second floors; elsewhere first floor
windows are tall unequal 15-pane sashes, second floor windows
12-pane sashes with original glazing bars. All windows have
painted stone sills and most retain flat arches of gauged
bricks. Broad raised bands to first and second floors.
Dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice.
Rear: 3 storeys and attics; 4 gabled bays, No.25 having shaped
gables, Nos 27 and 29 Dutch gables. No.25 extensively obscured
by fire escape and 1- and 2-storey extensions: on first floor
to left of extension is shallow elliptical bow window with
three 12-pane sashes: on second floor round-arched staircase
window between 12-pane sash to left, 4-pane sash to right,
both with elliptical brick arches: attic windows are squat
4-pane sash to left, 2-light to right, both with rendered flat
arches. No.27 not visible. No.29 has 4-pane sash windows on
first and second floors, 2-light C20 window to attic, all with
1-course segmental brick arches.
INTERIOR: of No.25: full-height open string staircase with
slender turned balusters and moulded, ramped handrail,

wreathed at foot. Staircase window between 1st and second
floors incorporates painted glass of 1801 by Thomas Hodgson.
No.29 has panelled rooms on first and second floors.
No.27 vacant at time of survey.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 185-6).

Listing NGR: SE6025952112

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number: 463685

Legacy System: LBS

Sources

Books and journalsAn Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 185-186

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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